Gerald Fitzgerald, the Chevalier: A Novel
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Lever Charles James. Gerald Fitzgerald, the Chevalier: A Novel
BOOK THE FIRST
CHAPTER I. THE THIEVES’ CORNER
CHAPTER II. THE LEVEE
CHAPTER III. THE ALTIERI PALACE
CHAPTER IV. THE PRINCE’S CHAMBER
CHAPTER V. AFTER DARK
CHAPTER VI. THE INTERVIEW
CHAPTER VII. THE VILLA AT ORVIETO
CHAPTER VIII. THE TANA IN THE MAREMMA
CHAPTER IX. THE ‘COUR’ OF THE ALTIERI
CHAPTER X. GABRIEL DE —
CHAPTER XI. LAST DAYS AT THE TANA
CHAPTER XII. A FOREST SCENE
CHAPTER XIII. A CONTRACT
CHAPTER XIV. THE ACCIDENTS OF ‘ARTIST’ LIFE
CHAPTER XV. A TUSCAN POLICE COURT
CHAPTER XVI. THE POET’S HOUSE
CHAPTER XVII. A LOVER’S QUARREL
CHAPTER XVIII. THE DROP
CHAPTER XIX. THE PLAN
BOOK THE SECOND
CHAPTER I. THE ‘SALLE DES GARDES’
CHAPTER II. A NIGHT ON DUTY
CHAPTER III. THE MISSION
CHAPTER IV. A SALON UNDER THE MONARCHY
CHAPTER V. A SUDDEN REVERSE
CHAPTER VI. A WANDERER
BOOK THE THIRD
CHAPTER I. A CARDINAL’S CHAMBER
CHAPTER II. A DEATH-BED
CHAPTER III. ‘LA GABRIELLE’
CHAPTER IV. SOME OF TIME’S CHANGES
CHAPTER V. A RECEPTION AT MADAME ROLAND’S
CHAPTER VI. ‘LA GRUE’
CHAPTER VII. A SUPPER WITH THE ‘FRIENDS OF THE PEOPLE’
CHAPTER VIII. THE DÉPÔT DE LA PRÉFECTURE
CHAPTER IX. THE PÈRE MASSONI IN HIS CELL
CHAPTER X. THE CARDINAL AT HIS DEVOTIONS
CHAPTER XI. AN AUDIENCE
CHAPTER XII. A JESUIT’S STROKE OF POLICY
CHAPTER XIII. THE PÈRE MASSONI’S MISGIVINGS
CHAPTER XIV. THE EGYPTIAN
CHAPTER XV. THE PÈRE AND THE PRINCESS
CHAPTER XVI. INTRIGUE
CHAPTER XVII. THE GARDEN AT ORVIETO
CHAPTER XVIII. HOW THE TIME PASSED AT ORVIETO
CHAPTER XIX. TWO VISITORS
CHAPTER XX. A WAYWORN ADVENTURER
CHAPTER XXI. A FOREST RIDE
CHAPTER XXII. ‘IL PASTORE’
CHAPTER XXIII. THE END
APPENDIX
NOTE I
NOTE II
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At the foot of the hill on which stands the Campidoglio at Rome, and close beneath the ruins that now encumber the Tarpeian rock, runs a mean-looking alley, called the Viccolo D’Orsi, but better known to the police as the ‘Viccolo dei Ladri,’ or ‘Thieves’ Corner’ – the epithet being, it is said, conferred in a spirit the very reverse of calumnious.
Long and straggling, and too narrow to admit of any but foot-passengers, its dwellings are marked by a degree of poverty and destitution even greater than such quarters usually exhibit. Rudely constructed of fragments taken from ancient temples and monuments, richly carved architraves and finely cut friezes are to be seen embedded amid masses of crumbling masonry, and all the evidences of a cultivated and enlightened age mingled up with the squalor and misery of present want.
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‘Per Bacco! they shall never bring me to the galleys, that I’ll swear,’ cried the herdsman. ‘Popes and princes would fret little about me when they gained their ends. There, on with them, Fra. If I see you steal one of them inside those loose robes of yours, by the blood of the martyrs, I ‘ll pin it to your side with my poniard.’
‘You mangy, starved hound of a goatherd!’ cried Fra Luke, seizing the massive iron tongs beside him; ‘do you think it’s one of yourselves I am, or that I have the same cowardly heart that can be frightened because you wear a knife in your sleeve? May I never see glory, if I wouldn’t clear the place of you all with these ould tongs, ay, and hunt every mother’s son of you down the alley.’ The sudden spring forward as he said this, seeming to denote an intention of action, so appalled his hearers that they rushed simultaneously to the door, and, in all the confusion of terror, fled into the street, the herdsman making use of all his strength to cleave his way through the rest.
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